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Aug 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007noao.prop..321h&link_type=abstract
NOAO Proposal ID #2007B-0321
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The 1.1mm AzTEC camera has recently conducted the largest and most sensitive survey at mm-wavelengths towards a powerful high-redshift radio galaxy: 4C41.17 at z 3.8. The 1.1mm map reveals a significant over-density of luminous, massive dust-enshrouded galaxies, a factor of 10 more numerous than the blank-field mm-galaxy population, which statistically is expected to lie at lower-redshifts, z 2.2. The AzTEC sources are expected to trace the bulk of the elliptical galaxy formation within a massive protocluster at z 3.8, over an unprecedentedly large area of 6 x 6 Mpc^2. We propose to acquire multi-object spectroscopic observations over 3 adjacent GMOS fields to provide redshifts for 5 SMA/AzTEC sources, which have sub-arcsec interferometric precisions, identifying unambiguously their optical/IR counterparts, which are inferred to be forming stars at rates in excess of 500 M_sun/yr ( L(FIR) > 10^13 L_sun ). Although these are dusty objects, we expect most of them to have patchy obscuration, and thus be able to detect emission-lines from the star-forming regions, as has been achieved with the mm-selected blank-field population. Additional slitlets in the 3 GMOS masks will also simultaneously measure the redshift of 30 neighbouring (< 20") optical/Spitzer selected galaxies that could be associated with the haloes of these SMA detected AzTEC sources, and 60 additional optical/Spitzer sources that, through photo-z, are likely to be at z 3.8 and be associated with other mm-galaxies that lie within the AzTEC map. These GMOS data will identify whether small groups of dynamically-interacting galaxies in the local environment (dark matter haloes) of the gas-rich, luminous starburst AzTEC sources are stimulating the accelerated levels of galaxy formation observed towards this biased region (protocluster) in the early Universe.
Aretxaga Itziar
Dunlop James S.
Fazio Gionanni G.
Handel Hughes David
Huang Jiasheng
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